How the tooth fairy used to be the Tooth Mouse The ancient rituals and myths of losing baby teeth

The tooth fairy has been shown as a child with wings, a pixie, a dragon, a blue mother-figure, a flying ballerina, two little old men, a dental hygienist, a potbellied flying man smoking a cigar, a bat, a bear, amongst others.

Still, children in Botswana, for example, throw their lost tooth on the roof.

Historically, it’s teeth from their lower jaw that are launched roof-wise.

Upper jaw teeth go on the floor or even under it.

(The idea is the new tooth will be pulled towards the old tooth).

According to Salon.com, the idea of a fairy taking children’s lost teeth isn’t even 100 years old.